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Only for the first Gym Leader, when I couldn't be bothered to get my team (especially my starter) to a high enough level. Otherwise, there are often better choices, though the monkeys' stats are decent and well-balanced.

My first run I used my Pansear, and I really liked it... but then I evolved it.
See, I was trying extra hard not to look at the pokemon before it got released because I wanted it to be a surprise, so I had no idea that when Pansear evolves, it gets a beer belly.
And evolving it didn't even make it more useful to the team either. x_x I think I dropped it right at the elite four in favor of Heatmor haha.

Alpha Sapphire Team V.2Knightly the Absol
Samson the Samurott
Kay the Gallade
Virgo the Lopunny
Otto the Aggron
Typhon the Hydreigon

I loved my Simisage, and it became a huge part of my Black team.
Simipour on White, on the other hand.... I still used it and trained it against the Elite 4 on my journey, but it was not really a helpful asset in any way besides Surfing.

Yes, I've kept my Pansear and evolved him I believe prior to battling Skyla. I wanted a Fire-type, and I didn't really want to use Darumaka or Litwak. I wanted to try and stay away from rather popular choices from what I have seen/guessed.

On one particular playthrough of Black, I did indeed use my Pansear, Scorch...

...And he ended up being on my final team as a Simisear. I evolved him late since I wanted to get Crunch, but he held his own okay even then. I haven't actively used either of the other two, but I was recently training them on White 2 I think... I need to get back to training them, actually. They're not terrible, and they are rather cute.

Yeah, my Simisear's been pretty much a regular in the team since I got him. He's fallen behind the rest a bit level wise, (low 50s compared to mid-60s of the rest of the team) so he quite often gets left behind when I'm heading east or doing anything a bit challenging. But he gets slotted back in whenever I'm around the earlier routes and with a couple of reasonably high PP moves does a good job at sweeping away all those pesky low level Pokemon, (I'm too cheap to go buying loads of repels)

I didn't really like any of the elemental monkeys at first. Simisage just looks horrendous to me. ;__; But after I beat Pokemon Black, I came to really like Simipour and Simisear. It turns out, they're very useful for me in battle at times! XD

In Pokemon Black (my main version) i never used him (except for the first gym) when i began with Oshawott though as there was another Fire type Pokemon i liked more, plus he got KO'd too easily (though it could of been the nature) and Incinerate was just underwhelming x.x''

In Pokemon White i started with Tepig and got Pansage and for some reason he was better; that being said i still didn't stick with him though and replaced him with Petilil.

Panpour was pretty good though (on one of my first playthrough's) and i can say she was the best out of the monkey's i've trained, even HM wise, but i still didn't keep her (used the fossil turtle instead-can't remember it's name though).

I had to restart Black though so i may be willing to give Pansear another chance as i know more about natures and things now than back then.

For the game, I started with Snivy and got Panpour, along the way I caught the other tree, after a while I started to leave them behind as I caught my favorite Pokemon along the way. Got rid of Panpour after I got Minccino (then got rid of it later too) first, then Pansage after I caught Emolga, and finally Pansear evolved it to Simisear but got rid of it after I caught Mienfoo.

For the 3 they were very useful during the game, but my favorite Pokemon take their place. At times I substitute of my favorite Pokemon for one of the 3 monkeys to use in a battle. I don't want to just abandon them.

Vote: I voted for Simisage, to represent Pansage, as he is my favorite of the three thanks to Cilan (my favorite Pokemon of his).